by Sandor on February 6th, 2007

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I JUST deleted a 5.96 GB folder from my computer, and no sooner than I did, did my computer report 'free space 5.02 GB'. There were a few hundred megs free to begin with to boot! There's over a gigabyte missing! Where did my memory go??? Windows XP.

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by Karl Plesz on February 7th, 2007
Assuming this is the same drive the swap file lives on, Windows may be commandeering some of that suddenly available 5.96GB of new free space to increase the size of the swap file. Since it sounds like you only had a few hundred MB of free space to begin with, Windows wouldn't normally be satisfied with that little amount of 'virtual memory'.

That's my guess. Windows just dynamically increased the size of the swap file.

And forgive the correction, but it's not 'memory', it's 'disk space'.
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- This is my guess as well.
  
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  by Someguy on February 15th, 2007
- yea either page file grew or system restore grew when it did a check point
  
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  by casedog21 on March 13th, 2007
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by mike blair on February 6th, 2007
The only thing I can think of is that you perhaps did not empty your recycle bin. Try emptying it, and see if the rest of your HDD space shows up
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- It has nothing to do with the recycle bin. Anything 4 gigabytes or more I delete says "the following item is too large to fit in the recycle bin. Permanently delete?" And as this was most certainly over 4 gigabytes, that's what happened. I pressed "ok" or "yes" or whatever it was, and it was never IN the recycle bin, it was permanently deleted right away. And then I went back and forward a directory and when it refreshed the space available, there it was, 5.02 gigs free. The recycle bin was and IS still empty.
  
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  by Sandor on February 6th, 2007
- right click on the recycle bin and click properties, next slide the slider to the end (make sure your on the Global Tab) right and make sure it says 100% under the slider, now you can hold a Lot more inside the bin and also since you are there you can also disable the delete warning if you want to.. :)
  
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  by nowxhining on February 14th, 2007
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